Edmonton Bulletin

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20 Oct 1915

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20 MORE VARSITY STUDENTS ARE TO LEAVE FOR FRONT

Enlistment For Fourth Universities" Company Reinforcing Princess Patricias.

Some twenty men from the University of Alberta are enlisting with the Fourth Universities' Company now forming at Montreal, making altogether 150 men or about one-third of the student body of the University. So far, seventeen men have passed their examinations  and are definitely included in the fourth contingent, and others are about to conclude their examinations. Transportation is now on the way, and the men expect to leave at any moment. The men so far accepted are as follows: James C. Jaffray, R. A. Walton, John C. Anglin, Charles E. Garlepy, L. S. MacDonald, Fraser M. Gerrie, Geo. D. Roberts,  Arthur W. Deitz, James D. Collins,  John A. Collins,  William A. Bassett, Chalmers MacKinnon, Russell J. Lynn, John P. Grant, C. G. Butchart, G. M. Lavell.
Ninety students from the senior years and six members of the staff have already left, in addition to more than 30 of their friends, a large number of whom had passed their matriculation examinations and have been at the University this year. Several students who were planning to take the new course in agriculture have enlisted. This is likely to effect seriously the attendance for the year, but in this respect Alberta is simply having the same experience as other universities in the Empire. At older universities in England, some of the colleges are closed entirely, while at others the attendance is very small. Some of the Canadian universities expect their enrollment to be cut practically in half. Whatever may be said of the other sections of the communities it cannot be denied that the universities of the Empire have realized their responsibility in connection with the national crisis.

Extracted by J. Kynman 2006-12-13